Tubular braid.



No. 698,490. Patented Apr. 29, |902.

J. A. GROEBLI. TUBULAR BRAID.

Applicaton led Nov. 29, .1901.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT -OEEICE.

JOSEPH A. GROEBLI, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR. TO KURSHEEDT MANU`-I FAOTURING COMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., A OOEPORATION OF NEW YORK.

`TUBLJLAR BRAlD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 698,490, dated April 29, 1902.

, Application filed November 29, 1901. Serial No. 84,059. (No model.)

citizen of the United States, and a resident ofV the borough of Manhattan, city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tubular Braids,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to tubular braids, and has for itsobject to produce a tubular structure having lines or wales of a general undulating form extending longitudinally thereof and selvage edges of a general vundulating contour united by a thread-braid Vor filament preferably laid in the nature of a loop-stitch.

In the accompanying drawings I have illustrated a tubular braid in which my invention is embodied.

In the drawings, Figure I illustrates one example of the braid in which my invention is embodied. Fig. II represents the braid as it would appear if the loopstitch were cut out and the braid were spread open.

It will be understood that the braid illustrated in the drawings and hereinafter described is but one of the many forms in which my invention may be embodied.

In the drawings, d indicates the braid, whose ribs or wales extend longitudinally thereof in a general undulating form,- two free edges b c or selvages being formed as undulating edges,I which are united in the present instance by a thread d entering each selvage.

This thread ol is bound in with each selvage and constitutes a bond or binder between the two selvages. If this thread or binder be c ut outand thebraid spreadout, it will assume the form shown in Fig. II, which figure clearly shows the undulating courses of the wales or ribs indicated by the crossing of the constituent threads.

The braid may be constructed in any suitable manner. One mode of constructing the said braid is to form it upon a fiat-braiding machine having two selvage-bars and interposed between the two selvage-bars a raceway open at the side, into which opening the braider-threads are adapted to pass as they are thrown upon the selvage-bars as the car# riers reach the turning-point of their travel.

As the selvage-threads come into the race- .way the shuttle carrying the thread d travels around its circuit, thereby binding the shut# tlc-thread around the braider-threads. l

It will be understood thaty a binder the equivalent of a thread may be employed to eect the binding of the two selvages and "that the thread or binder is distinct both as to the manner in which it is bound into the braid and in function from the individual braiderthreads.

Having described my invention,A what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 1s

l. As a new and useful article of Inanufac; ture a tubular braid consisting of a braided body, havingwales or ribs'of a general undulating form running `longitudinally thereof and selvage edges united by a thread or filament after the manner of a loop-stitch.

2. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a tubular braid having selvage edges of a general undulating form bound together by a thread substantially as set forth and ribs or wales of a general undulating ferm running longitudinally thereof.

3. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a tubular braid consisting of a braided body, having two selvage edges of wavy form, the waves of one edge fitting the waves of the other edge, and means for uniting said edges substantially as described.

4. As a new and useful article of manufacture, a tubular braid having extending longi tudinally thereof wavy edges, the waves of 

